It's been a more quiet week on Farcaster with Mini App launches, discussions though no splashes. Though the Ethereum Foundation is moving to focus on User Experience and Dan Romero is on vacation in Europe.

The Ethereum Foundation is focusing on improving user experience across the Ethereum ecosystem through three key initiatives: building lightweight intent-based infrastructure and crosschain standards (Initialisation), accelerating transaction speeds by reducing L1 confirmation times to 15-30 seconds and potentially shortening slot times from 12 to 6 seconds (Acceleration), and exploring advanced technologies like real-time SNARK proving and faster finality mechanisms that could bring settlement times down to seconds (Finalisation). The centerpiece projects include the Open Intents Framework for modular crosschain operations, the Ethereum Interoperability Layer for trustless cross-L2 transactions, and a fast L1 confirmation rule that provides strong security guarantees much earlier than full finality. These efforts aim to make Ethereum feel like a unified chain again while maintaining its core values of censorship resistance, privacy, and security across the fragmented L1 and L2 ecosystem.

1. Bankr SDK

   Deployer on Farcaster

   if you want to add @bankr like functionality to your app or agent hmu. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bankr/sdk

   Farcaster

   

2. Ethereum Foundation App User Experience Blog post: https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/08/29/protocol-update-003

What did you see? tag @samuellhuber.eth on Farcaster to ping great insights for next week's episode.

Here's the current overview of Farcaster metrics.

• How much funds do users hold? aka what's the liquidity you can tap into? How much of these is held by quality users?

• Is the network growing? How many of these users are considered quality (using OpenRank global scores for filtering). How does activity look like?

• Which chains are used the most among influential accounts and how does Base vs Solana dominance look like?

• How many daily active users (DAU) does Farcaster have right now? How much activity exists aka how many new posts? how many of these new posts are from quality users?

The full data can be viewed live on the Dune Dashboard

What I found incredible in conversations this week is how XMTP in Coinbase wallet is so interopable that one can use XMTP standalone on their webpage and as long as users have their base.eth wallet on the webpage or your own mobile app too it's the same chat they'll see in the base app too.
That means you can get users in Base app and your own app and have them interact without a visible boundary. While programmability of XMTP gives the possibility of agents and all other programmability (see https://dtech.vision/blog/manifesto-a-programmable-world/ ).